ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,556,214, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Dugan Patents LLC (Sleepy Hollow, N.Y.).

"Methods and apparatus for reducing cellular telephone radiation exposure" was invented by Brian M. Dugan (Sleepy Hollow, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In some aspects, a cellular telephone includes (1) a user interface portion having a communications circuit; and (2) a cellular portion having a first communications circuit adapted to communicate with the communications circuit of the user interface portion and a second communications circuit adapted to communicate with a cellular network. The cellular portion is removably coupled to the user inter...